Hartog, C. den (1970), Verhandelingen der koninklijke Nederllandsche Akademie van Wetenschappen Amsterdam Afdeeling Natuurk ser. 2, 59(1): 114 [tax. nov.]

• Type: Heterozostera tasmanica (Asch.) Hartog

Aston, H.I. (1973), Aquatic Plants of Australia: 325-328 [secondary reference]

Cronquist, A.J. (1981), An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants: 1072 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 60 [secondary reference]

Robertson, E.L. in Womersley, H.B S. (1984), Seagrasses. The marine benthic flora of southern Australia 1: 109 [secondary reference]

common name: Eelgrass [n/a] common name: Garweed [n/a]

Rye, B.L. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987), Zosteraceae. Flora of the Perth Region 2: 726 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Zosteraceae. Flora of New South Wales 4: 27 [secondary reference]

Conn, B.J. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Flowering Plants (Magnoliophyta). Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2: 163 [secondary reference]

Morris, D.I. in Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1994), Zosteraceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 4B: 28 [secondary reference]

Kuo, J. & McComb, A.J. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (1998), Zosteraceae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 4: 500 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Flora of the South West 1: 469 [secondary reference]

Kuo, J. (2005), A revision of the genus Heterozostera (Zosteraceae). Aquatic Botany 81: 101-102 [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2006), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Zostera sect. Heterozostera Setch. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Zostera subg. Heterozostera (Setch.) Setch. legitimate

• APC Comment: Heterozostera is included in Zostera in NSW.
• APC Dist.: WA, SA, Vic, Tas

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 404 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Zostera L. legitimate

Kuo, J. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2011), Zosteraceae. Flora of Australia 39: 136 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Zostera sect. Heterozostera Setch. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Zostera subg. Heterozostera (Setch.) Setch. legitimate

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